River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-13
IN TIE EAST.


Rather singular scene was enacted
at the fair grounds at Elmira, n. Y. While
Senator Hiscock was delivering an address,
Miss Frances +. Willard, accompanied by
brass band, came on the grounds and
| interrupted the proceedings. Friends of
] Miss Willard insisted that she be given
the platform, and the senator was Obliged
to stop speaking. The officers OF the
agricultural society finally succeeded in
quelling the disturbance ana Mr. Hiscock
was allowed to finish his address Miss
| Willard followed the senator and delivered
political speech, talking from the prohibit
standpoint. This attempt of the temperance
people to stop Senator Hiscock's speech
created great deal of excitement and bad
| feeling.
Aresident of Islip. Long Island, n.
Y, going through the woods north of the
town discovered the multilated body of
woman hidden in bushes. The body was
recognized as that of Mrs. Francis Hawkins,
a wealthy widow. Suspicion pointed to +.
Axbury Hawkins, the dead lady's elder
son, as the murderer. The coroner jury
brought in a verdict charging young
Hawkins with the crime, and be YVES conf
mtted to jail. He has made . fun confession.
He alleges that his mother applied an
epithet to his lady love which so enraged
him that he shot her in the bead and threw
her DOuy where IL was lOuHus
Some 1000 brass workers al New
York and Brooklyn have quit work on the
question of a half holiday on Saturday
with a full days pay. The employers say
s'half days work half days pay" The
men established head quarters, and the
action of the employers was teegraphed to
the Knights of Labor convention at EMlnne-
apolis and an answer was received telling
the men to hold cut and they would re-
ceive support from the Knights throughout
the country.
Rev. DR.. Parker pronounced his GU
logy upon Henry Ward Beecher at the
BROOKLYN academy of music, to vast and
brilliant audience, who evinced the deepest
interest in the eloquent and comprehensive
address,
The New York Commercial Bulle-
tins fire record for September shows an
aggregate loss of s7,937,900, against
81, 500UO0 in September 1856. The total
for the first nine months of the current year
is sg3 Is 500, against $50, 400, coo for the cor
responding period of 1856.
Gen. Pitcairn Morrison, United
States Army, (retired) aged nine-two has
died at Baltimore, Md. He was a native of
New York city, and in 1870 was appointed
serond lieutenant of artillery in the regu-
to the infantry.
A hole dug in the canal bank mile
from Nashua, ~ H., by a muskrat caused
not only disastrous food but caused all
the mills to shut down, throwing 1000 EN-
ployes out of work for an indefinite time.
Rev. I. K Beecher, nominated by
the Greenback party of New York for sec
rotary of state, said 10 a reporter that be
would accept the nomination and would
publish an address TO the people.
Policeman W. ID. johnson was shot
and killed in West Philadelphia, Pa, by
suspicious character whom the officer ae-
costed and asked to give an account of him
self The murderer escaped.
William Walter Phelps of New
Jersey is out in an interview declaring him
self a candidate for the New Jersey senator
ship to succeed Senator Mcpherson, whose
term expires in lSs9.
a rIImoI has prevailed~at New York
that President Garrett, Of the Baltimore q
Ohio r. r., is insane, made so by mental
trouble. The rumor is also denied.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has purchased the Baltimore & Ohio
telegraph system, for the reported sum Of
S5.0g0,uln
At Springfield, Mass, Rx-Goy, VIII
liam g. washburr, of Greenfield dropped
dead on the platform at city all at TIE
morning session OF thu board of foreit
mission, little befor 10 O'Clock, He was